Lola Ridge

Lola Ridge 1873-1941 Lola Ridge was a poet and champion of the working class. Politically active before socialism be came fashionable among New York intellectuals, Ridge participated in protests, marches, and pickets with ferocious spirit. Throughout her life she suffered illnesses, eventually dying of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1941, yet her writing is vigorous and electric. She was, as Peter Quartermain described her in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, "the nearest prototype in her time...See more

Lola Ridge 1873-1941 Lola Ridge was a poet and champion of the working class. Politically active before socialism be came fashionable among New York intellectuals, Ridge participated in protests, marches, and pickets with ferocious spirit. Throughout her life she suffered illnesses, eventually dying of pulmonary tuberculosis in 1941, yet her writing is vigorous and electric. She was, as Peter Quartermain described her in the Dictionary of Literary Biography, "the nearest prototype in her time of the proletarian poet of class conflict, voicing social protest or revolutionary idealism." See less